About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Character "It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas." — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Gender Gap "About the two 18-year-olds who are charged with having chosen to kill their seven-and-a-half-pound boy, putting his body in a trash bag in the motel's dumpster:Don't young people read newspapers? Don't they know that, thanks to President Clinton, they could have chosen to have a doctor suck their baby's brains out, and Delaware would not have chosen to charge them with murder?" — George Will, "An Abortion Choice," Washington Post, 11-24-96.{No you dumb ass George, they don't read newspapers—they're too busy listening to their elders tell them they're going to hell for getting pregnant in the first place and getting no information on contraception.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "I didn't really say everything I said." — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

Credit: Courtesy of Marshall Space Flight Center, NASAClick picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 772 - Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.

● 1411 - Peace of Toruń 1411 signed in Toruń, Poland

● 1539 - Emperor Karel & King François I sign anti-English treaty

● 1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuart's death sentence

● 1662 - The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege from the Dutch.

● 1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion

● 1709 - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island (Fernandez Island) for 5 years, his story is the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe"

● 1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.

● 1717 - Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France

● 1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty

● 1732 - Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions

● 1742 - Sardinia & Austria sign alliance

● 1750 - Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton (author of "Amazing Grace"), 24, wedded Mary Catlett. Their marriage lasted 40 years, before her death in 1790. John lived another 17 years, and died in 1807.

● 1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex

● 1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat.

● 1789 - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long

● 1790 - In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.

● 1791 - English founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: 'Probably I should not be able to do so much did not many of you assist me by your prayers.'

● 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

● 1856 - Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.

● 1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York NY

● 1861 - American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States; seventh state to do so.

● 1861 - Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands

● 1862 - Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.

● 1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins

● 1864 - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein

● 1864 - Battle of Yazoo River, Mississippi

● 1864 - The Collar Laundry Union forms in Troy, New York. Led by Kate Mullaney, a National Labor Union activist, the union will successfully increase earnings for laundresses from two dollars to 14 dollars a week.

● 1898 - The Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, CT, issued the first automobile insurance policy. Dr. Truman Martin of Buffalo, NY, paid $11.25 for the policy, which gave him $5,000 in liability coverage.

● 1900 - Eastman Kodak Co. introduced the $1 Brownie box camera.

● 1901 - Pioneer American missionaries Charles (37) and Lettie (31) Cowman set sail for Japan. Later in the year they founded the Oriental Missionary Society. They labored in the foreign field until Charles' worsening health forced them to retire in 1917.

● 1926 - Colonel Billy Mitchell convicted by courtmartial of criticizing his superiors for not seeing the merit in expanding the combat use of air power. Mitchell resigned his commission and, after warning of the danger of a Japanese attack on Hawaii, died in New York in February, 1936.

● 1926 - Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR

● 1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per square inch

● 1930 - The Times published its first crossword puzzle.

● 1931 - Anarchist Severino Di Giovanni dies in shoot-out with the police. Typographer. Fled to Argentina in 1923 to escape Italian fascism. When Sacco and Vanzetti, were executed in 1927, began violent actions with the Scarfo brothers (Alejandro and Paulino); many bombs were set off, especially aimed at North American interests.

● 1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel (rotary) engine was running at the NSU research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany

● 1957 - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam

● 1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched

● 1958 - Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.

● 1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women

● 1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)

● 1960 - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender

● 1960 - Four black students sit in at a Woolworths' lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation. Similar protests later take place all over the South and in some northern communities. By September 1961, more than 70,000 students, whites and blacks, will have participated in sit-ins.

● 1961 - First anniversary of the Greensboro sit-in - demonstrations all across the south, including a Nashville movie theater desegregation campaign (which sparks similar demos in 10 other cities); nine students arrested at lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina, choose to take 30 days hard labor on a road gang; next week, four other students repeat the sit-in, also choose jail.

● 1964 - Indiana Governor Welsh declares the song "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen pornographic, wants it banned. Stations say it's impossible to figure out the lyrics from "the unintelligible rendition as performed," but Welsh claims his "ears tingle" when he hears the song.

● 1968 - Merger of the historic New York Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to form ill-fated Penn Central Transportation.

● 1968 - Official unification of the three military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force, into the united Canadian Armed Forces.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem is executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The execution was videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams and helped sway public opinion against the war.

● 1968 - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi

● 1969 - Saturday mail delivery in Canada eliminated.

● 1969 - The diplomatic relations between Peru and the Soviet Union were established.

● 1975 - Otis Francis Tabler is first open homosexual to get federal security clearance.

● 1977 - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives

● 1977 - U.S. Federal Power Commission Report recommends approval of proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in British Columbia, suggesting that legal land claims of sovereign First Nation peoples were not a major concern.

● 1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. {Widower of Sharon Tate killed by the Mason Family.}

● 1978 - First U.S. postage stamp to honor an African-American woman, Harriet Tubman, is issued.

● 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini is welcomed back into Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.

● 1979 - Patty Hearst was released from prison after serving 22 months of a seven-year sentence for bank robbery. Her sentence had been commuted by U.S. President Carter.

● 1980 - In honor of the first anniversary of the death of ex- Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, 1,000 punks march from London's Chelsea section to Hyde Park. Sid's mom, Ann Beverly, was to head the march; however, the night before she was sent to the hospital for a drug overdose.

● 1980 - Seven thousand march to protest KKK in Greensboro, North Carolina.

● 1996 - The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.

● 1996 - Visa and Mastercard announced security measures that would make it safe to shop on the Internet.

● 1999 - Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky gave a deposition that was videotaped for senators weighing impeachment charges against U.S. President Clinton.

● 2001 - Three Scottish judges found Abdel Basset al-Mergrahi guilty of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 people. The court said that Megrahi was a member of the Libyan intelligence service. Al-Amin Khalifa, who had been co-accused, was acquitted and freed.

● 2004 - May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)

● 2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)

● 2006 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)

● 2006 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)

● 2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)

● 2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)

● 2007 - Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)

● 2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)

● 2007 - Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:● St. Brigid of Kildar, patron saint of Ireland● St. Cinnia● St. Crewanna● St. Darulagdach● St. Jarlath● St. John of the Grating● St. Kinnia● St. Paul of Trois Chateaux● St. Pionius● St. Seiriol● St. Veridiana● Bl. Andrew of Segni● Bl. Anthony Manzi

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for January 19 (Civil Date: February 1)● St. Macarius the Great of Egypt St. Macarius of Alexandria.● Virgin Martyr Euphrasia of Nicomedia.● St. Arsenius, Archbishop of Kerkyra (Corfu).● Translation of the Relics of St. Gregory the Theologian.● St. Mark, Archbishop of Ephesus.● St. Meletius the Gallesiote, monk.● Blessed Theodore of Novgorod, fool-for-Christ.● Opening of the Relics of St. Sabbas of Storozhev or Zvenigorod.● St. Macarius, deacon of the Kiev Caves.● St. Macarius of the Kiev Caves.● St. Anthony, hermit of Georgia.● St. Macarius the Roman of Novgorod.

● Old Roman Catholic:● St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, martyr

● Imbolc - the first day of Spring in Ireland (Irish Calendar), one of the eight solar holidays in the Wheel of the Year.

● The start of Black History Month in the United States.

● The start of LGBT History Month in the United Kingdom.

● Observed as "national" porridge day by parts of Northern England, but this has been disputed by Southern England in the past.

● Malaysia : Federal Territory Holiday (1974)

● Nicaragua : Air Force Day

● US : National Freedom Day

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● Switzerland : Homstrom-celebrates end of winter - ( Sunday )● Australia : Australia Day - ( Monday )

THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING EIGHT SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.

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